Howard Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

'Working the ground' in Scotland
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1456-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: New Ethnographies

This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Penny McCall

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: A metabolism of labour and environment
1 'Working the ground'
2 From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at sea
Part II: Techniques and technologies
3 Techniques to extend the body and its senses
4 From 'where am I?' to 'where is that?' Rethinking navigation
Part III: Capitalism and class
5 'You just can't get a price': the difference political economy makes
6 Structural violence in ecological systems
Conclusion: labour, class, environments and anthropology
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia and is an Honorary Associate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Sydney